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1130160

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority’s budget will be increased for the coming year to reflect its wider remit as expanded by the Immigration Act 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	260614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the GLAA was increased in 2016/17 and 2017/18 to reflect its wider remit and has been maintained at that level into 2019/20. Funding for future years will be decided as part of the spending review.</p><p>It is for the GLAA to determine how best to allocate its resources in the light of the intelligence available to it.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 260615 260616 question first answered 10/06/2019 12:07:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1130161

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the volume of intelligence on potential labour abuse and exploitation received by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority; and whether funding for that authority has been assessed against the volume of that intelligence.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	260615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the GLAA was increased in 2016/17 and 2017/18 to reflect its wider remit and has been maintained at that level into 2019/20. Funding for future years will be decided as part of the spending review.</p><p>It is for the GLAA to determine how best to allocate its resources in the light of the intelligence available to it.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 260614 260616 question first answered 10/06/2019 12:07:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1130162

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to reduce the funding allocated by his Department to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	260616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the GLAA was increased in 2016/17 and 2017/18 to reflect its wider remit and has been maintained at that level into 2019/20. Funding for future years will be decided as part of the spending review.</p><p>It is for the GLAA to determine how best to allocate its resources in the light of the intelligence available to it.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 260614 260615 question first answered 10/06/2019 12:07:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1139840

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of whether misogynistic crimes targeted at women should be treated as hate crimes by the police.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	278479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has asked the Law Commission to review the adequacy and parity of protection offered by the law relating to hate crime. This review covers both existing protected characteristics and whether additional strands, including sex and gender, should be added. The Law Commission will be undertaking a public consultation and we will consider the results of their report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/07/2019 15:38:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1143618

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Disability: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the extent of enforcement of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 on discrimination on the basis of disability.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	285085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the evidence given by the Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the recent inquiry into <em>Enforcing the Equality Act: the law and the role of the EHRC</em> by the Women and Equalities Select Committee chaired by my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Basingstoke. The Select Committee recently published its report from the inquiry and the Government will be responding to that report shortly.</p><p> </p><p>Written evidence to the inquiry by the Government can be found here <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/enforcing-the-equality-act-the-law-and-the-role-of-the-equality-and-human-rights-commission/written/91826.html" target="_blank"><strong>http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/enforcing-the-equality-act-the-law-and-the-role-of-the-equality-and-human-rights-commission/written/91826.html</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/09/2019 16:45:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1175008

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted under section 21 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>Since July 2016, under section 21 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 there have been 3 people prosecuted.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement will review investigations into employers on a case by case basis to see whether a civil penalty is a more appropriate course of action rather than a criminal prosecution. Where there are no aggravating factors, it is more likely that civil penalty action will be undertaken to enforce compliance.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of penalties issued under section 15 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, and the total value of those penalties are published on gov.uk. A total of 5,856 civil penalties were issued between July 2016 and June 2019, with a total value of £100.1m.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/02/2020 13:48:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1273168

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (a) employed in 2019-20 and (b) employs in 2020-21; and how many of those staff were dedicated to working in Scotland in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	132879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority employed 144 staff in total in 2019-20. Two of these were based in Scotland. In 2020-21, GLAA employed 137 people in total.</p><p>One member of staff is based in Scotland. Further staff are available from other enforcement and compliance teams to support work in Scotland through the GLAA’s tasking and co-ordination process.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/01/2021 15:00:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1388144

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Afghans relocated to the UK under the ARAP scheme including Locally Employed Staff will count towards the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme allocation of 20,000.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	93753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/01/2022 12:59:24 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1399889

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghans (a) have arrived in the UK in total under Operation Warm Welcome, (b) have arrived under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme, (c) were British citizens, and (c) were neither British citizens or did not qualify under the Policy and will be allocated places under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme since August 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	98267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>C.15,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan during Operation Pitting, with a further c.1,500 brought to the UK from neighbouring countries since then.</p><p>We will not give a running commentary on statistics due to the continuing flow of people being welcomed. We will include this data within published resettlement statistics in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 10/01/2022 17:03:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield